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• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by ... starting to be on the radar of people I knew. But there’s a pretty clear ... role in forming me into what I would be as an adult. Forged and formed

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  rehearsals are beginning to amp up, and next week we’ll be starting to practice ... , and I knew I wanted to be part of one—I just kept psyching myself out of ... . It can be a bit frustrating since I’m at this unfortunate stage where

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  . Despite being guests ourselves, we spent a lot of time entertaining the ... my sister and I being socially awkward nerds in another country, we ... other little things around the house. It felt nice to be depended on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  course of 140 years, and is still being built today. It felt otherworldly ... on it early enough to still be let in. The owner was kind to let us ... virtue of this being a new experience, especially an athletic one, we were

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston ... trip, though, was the food. In an effort to be ~fancy~ college students ... out who my[annotation note="Shoutout to Abby for being the best big ever

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I ... that were meant to be broken. The universe is just teaching the same ... . Most of all, I don't want to be like DJ "Suffering from Success" Khaled

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  much on the blogs. But it was so fun and lovely to just be in full ... ...my human-ness? I guess. And so it was just so lovely to be in that state all ... Emma and her family. I've known Emma since CPW and I just love being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... entirely. You will be back again tomorrow. Next you rush down the halls ... careful, wary of your tiredness, how easy a mistake would be. You think of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  mineral as determined by its capacity to scratch another or be itself ... marshmallows. Could this be why there have been no previous quantitative studies ... data point might be an outlier. Conclusion MIT, with a median Vickers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  to be truly amazing. Some of my favorites were:  the Afro ... , but with more leeway than in the US, which I’ve had to be aware of each ... mountainside where there used to be a waterfall, considered the environmental

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  be boundaries!"]oversharing[/annotation] my thoughts and feelings with ... be that anchor for myself. I'm grateful to have been welcomed back to ... overflowing with, and there will be plenty of surprises along the way.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  [/annotation] in two cases that will be argued before the Supreme Court next month ... selecting the students who will be offered admission, MIT does not use any ... contextualized assessment of each applicant has proven to be the most effective way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  the Best of the Blog zine. It was great, and you know, vandalism can be ... playlists, Alice '24 [annotation note="Alice's reaction to seeing this will be ... should be represented. There is no one version of this place. Each

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  shout "On your left!" or "On your right!" and I will never be able to predict which it will be. So, I cling to whichever edge of the path I choose ... go to Boston College, and they won't be lying. I take the identical

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  database design trade-off always seems to be like this: the faster you drive ... . Words didn't need to be spoken. I run to my next event in McCormick for ... weekdays. What does it say about MIT, for CPW to be such a large, grand event

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much ... somewhere a long way away. I don't know if this joy will be able to persist ... ="Not to be dramatic, but truthfully, I don't think I'll ever trust anything

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  is raising her 2-year-old son to be bilingual in Iñupiaq and English ... be supported going forward. David Shane Lowry is the Distinguished ... learner of the Alutiiq language. Interested readers might also be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  , piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are ... piercer named Owen. He allowed Priscilla and I to be in the piercing room ... , which can be hard to do by yourself for piercings not on the earlobe

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  Gamemasters. I managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I ... visualized the data from Game 1: Hide and Seek. My code can be found here. Game ... be influenced similarly to mine by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be ... (61%) resulted in points being added to my score, helping me achieve ... , with regards to making regrade requests, there's data that can be used

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020